14/8/2009
Is it possible to over prepare a site ?
Probably not if you are a seed but as a direct seeding machine operator I would have to say YES.
Tony had prepared well . Strong fences surrounded the site , the whole site had been blitzed twice with herbicide , ripped lines had been added to break up the soil and capture
maximum moist .
maximum moist .
Yet we found it a difficult site !
The ripped lines had captured too much moisture. A heavy duty tractor had done the ripping .The ripped lines were so deep that when we straddled them we were sowing the seed into mid air. We ended up sowing between the rip lines but they were spaced so that each wheel of the toyota was travelling along a ripped furrow.
The photos tell the story .
7 rows of 700 metres = 2ha
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